A woman in her late 70s with known left-sided phaeochromocytoma presented with acute variceal bleeding secondary to suspected cirrhosis. Terlipressin, a standard first-line vasoactive agent, was ...

In the present study, we were able to confirm several previous observations concerning variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients, although there were some differences in the etiology of cirrhosis ...

Variceal rebleeding frequently develops in patients with cirrhosis after an initial episode of acute variceal hemorrhage. The best prophylactic treatment for variceal rebleeding has not been clearly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Both primary endoscopic prophylaxis and secondary endoscopic prophylaxis were safe for the prevention of ...

Bleeding from gastric varices is relatively common and can be life threatening. The optimal treatment strategy for gastric variceal hemorrhage is controversial. Both interventional radiology and ...

Previous studies have shown that octreotide is effective in reducing portal pressure which then reduces the severity of esophageal variceal bleeding. Although octreotide is essential when these ...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina revealed the need to clarify current treatment guidelines for octreotide therapy following an esophageal variceal hemorrhage in a recent study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers reported no difference in rates of infection, rebleeding and mortality when antibiotic prophylaxis ...

Acute oral ammonia tolerance test. After samples of arterial and venous blood were obtained a 3-gm. dose of ammonium chloride contained in starch capsules was administered by mouth. Forty-five minutes ...

2 Department of General, Gastroenterological, and Oncological Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland Acute esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) remains one of the most severe ...

Approximately half of patients with advanced liver disease have varicose veins in the esophagus and stomach, and a more than a fifth of them experience bleeding from these varices into the digestive ...

In the whole series, 222 (73%) out of 304 patients were male and the median age was 52 years (range: 22-82 years). Liver cirrhosis was related to hepatitis B virus in 192 (63%) patients, alcohol ...